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TRAITOR let loose the classic American speed metal punk with their new album Last Hope For The Wretched . These shredders hail from Philadelphia and Delaware, and like many of the east coast thrashers before them, seem to carry a chip on the shoulder that this gritty Mid-Atlantic corridor so often imparts to its denizens. The result is their ferocious full length album  - their first proper LP since their formation a decade ago  - that unleashes a blitz of duel guitar solos and chugging distortion. Last Hope For The Wretched by Traitor   The Necrosexual speaks with Traitor's Joe Rado (drums and vocals), Greg Lundmark (rhythm guitar and vocals) and Brian Mikus (lead guitar and vocals) in this interview below. Crank it up! Last Hope For The Wretched is your first full length album, following a split and EP from 2018. What was the creative process like for this one? Brian: First I must state it is great to be interviewed by the most electrifying man in corpse entertainment. The pro

Trivium are like the Kardashians of heavy metal. One is certain to see their name a lot, whether you love 'em or hate 'em. They're just a successful band with quite a few sales and scores of iconic tours under their belt. And then there's the ever-present personality of frontman and prolific Twitch stream Matt Heafy, whose musical résumé is only growing. So for all the success and accolades, Trivium has accrued, how does their latest full length measure up? Trivium 's In The Court Of The Dragon is sure to excite a good portion of the metal world, despite my personal aversion to many of their of stylistic choices. Of those fans, many might even award it "Album Of The Year." It is objectively a fine album.  In The Court Of The Dragon galvanizes its metalcore foundation with thrash metal speeds, plenty of extreme metal detours, and gratuitous guitar solos. Vocalist and virtuoso Matt Heafy leaves few notes unturned, both on his fretboard and vocal register.

Jason Dost is a Philadelphia-area rocker who hits harder than Satan's bong rips. His doom band Moros recently released a crushing EP, entitled  High As Fuck And Ready To Die. He's a conspirator in the new black metal band  ANTIHÆLIX , who released their debut demo in early August 2021 on Dost's own business enterprise, Putrid Hammer Conspiracies . He's also played a role in bands like Sunburster and Krieg . So many riffs, so little time!   I recently spoke with Mr. Dost via email about his various acts of debauchery in the Philadelphia and east coast metal scene at large. Read on if you dare! What was the creative process like for High As Fuck And Ready To Die ? Or does the title explain it all? With   Moros , John or I will often come to practice with a song skeleton or what ends up being half of a song and we sorta fill in the gaps together and refine the music as a band. The two original jams on the cassette were two songs from a larger group of songs we intend to r

At The Gates return with their new album The Nightmare Of Being, a heavy dose of their iconic Swedish death metal melodies, with neurotic intensity, and several surprising progressive detours. Vocalist and lyricist Tomas Lindberg remains a key part of At The Gates' sound since their formation in 1990. His throaty attack lends the perfect balance of levity and delirium for At The Gates, with lyrics about society, philosophy and all sorts of anger and depression.  Finally, Tomas Lindberg goes one on one with the GRIM-1: HELL-O Tomas!   What's your favorite song on The Nightmare Of Being and why? It's so very hard to pick out songs in that way. We're old men now. We write albums. All the songs are sequenced meticulously to fit in the song order. But of course, the things we haven't done before is pretty rewarding to be able to do that and get a good reaction from that. With that i'm talking about Songs like “The fall Into Time,” “Garden of Cyrus,” “Cosmic Pessimis

The UK's Wallowing  crash through sonic boundaries, as they merge music with print media. Their 2019 album  Planet Loss  is a 30-minute song of harsh noise, fat tones and spacey passages, paired with a graphic novel illustrating their lyrics - the story of a dystopian planet ruled by reptilian overlords and a worker's revolt. Wallowing's Tom and Ruari go one on one with the GRIM-1 in this interview:  HELL-O folks What was the creative process like, both for the comic book and its source material? Tom:  It was a lot of fun to write PLANET LOSS as a record and then revisit it in an entirely new format. When writing the music for the album we had to think about how we could effectively represent different scenarios, scenes and locations with sound that reinforced the lyrics/story. It was a similar process in creating the comic I feel, as we had the story/text good to go in the form of the lyrics - so it was a case of then reinforcing the content we already had with imagery. I

Nashville's Yautja attack with an unorthodox amalgamation of punk, grindcore and sludge on their new album The Lurch. These dudes have diligently shredded and toured throughout the last decade, and their recent music video for their heavy single "Tethered" totally sold me. Yautja bassist and vocalist Kayhan goes One On One With The GRIM-1 in this phone interview, transcribed below.  HELL-O))) Kayhan! What's one song everyone should listen to off The Lurch? I would say "The Wait." It's like the third single video we put out for the record.  Your new music video "Tethered" is like a backyard recreation of Tetsuo: The Iron Man . What was your inspiration? I had an idea that was based off the lyrics to the song. I kind of like...this would either look really sick with high production value and practical effects and nice camera work and editing and all that stuff. Or it would look really cool, super lo-fi, straight to VHS, and getting a group of our